MARRIAGE REVEALED. Taylor Caldwell, 77, prolific and bestselling novelist (This Side of Innocence, Dear and Glorious Physician, Great Lion of God); and Robert Prestie, 60, her manager; she for the fourth time, he for the second; on July 6 in Erie, Pa.

DIED. Fyodor Kulakov, 60, Soviet Politburo member and former National Party Secretary for Agriculture; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The youngest man to serve simultaneously on the 14-member Politburo and the Secretariat, Kulakov rode out the disastrous grain harvest of 1975 and was reportedly being groomed to succeed Brezhnev. Named Party Secretary for Agriculture in 1965 and Politburo member in 1971. Kulakov resigned his Secretariat post in 1976 to broaden his expertise. That year he delivered the keynote address at the traditional celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, and his attendance at Yugoslavia's congress last month confirmed his good standing as a Brezhnev protege.

DIED. Gerald Warner Brace, 76, novelist of the New England scene (among his eleven books: The Garretson Chronicle and The Islands) and longtime professor of English at Boston University; of cancer; in Blue Hill, Me. A stylish lecturer who in spired thousands of students with his incisive and dry-humored dissections of American literature. Brace, though born on Long Island, developed a lifetime love affair with New England (and particularly Maine) that was reflected in the values that his life and novels extolled: duty, moderation, self-control and, above all, the enduring power of reason.

DIED. Henri Moureu, 79, French scientist who in World War II helped to frustrate Nazi efforts to make an atom bomb and later saved Paris from rocketing; in Pau, France. Assigned in 1940 to guard France's secret reserve of deuterium oxide (heavy water), Moureu hid it in a prison cell, then smuggled it to England. In 1944, when the Germans unveiled V-2 rockets, Moureu calculated their size and working principles. He also helped pin point launching sites targeted on Paris, which were destroyed by U.S. bombers.

DIED. Jackson Tate, 79, retired Navy admiral who won a two-year diplomatic battle to meet the daughter produced by his fleeting wartime affair with a Soviet actress; of cancer; in Jacksonville, Fla. Stationed in Moscow in 1945, Tate met and courted Film Star Zoya Fyodorova. Soviet authorities banished Tate and sent Fyodorova to a hard-labor camp for eight years. Not until 1963 did Tate learn that a daughter, Victoria, had been born of one of their last trysts. Finally in 1975, Victoria, now a film star herself, was granted a three-month exit visa to visit the U.S. Soon after a highly publicized meeting with her father, she married an American pilot and settled in Connecticut.

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